Volume 1: Once in a Lifetime Chapter 4: The Eel Spirit Is Coming
At dinner time, Lin Chengshan really brought Manti to the house together.
As soon as she got out of the car, Manti was shocked by the Lin family's magnificent garden house.
This is a townhouse in the Spanish style: three storeys and a small loft with a peacock green spire and pale yellow walls. The villa is a combination of inner court style and pillar courtyard, with a high foundation, moisture-proof reinforcement, and a wider view. Above the high base are six steps, each paved with a stone slab.
As you climb the stairs, you will find three tightly arranged round arches, raised high by marble columns, all made of Shaanna marble from Iran. The second floor is also five round arches, large in the middle, narrow on both sides, and also raised with marble. It highly highlights the grandeur of the owner, and the curvature adds to the tenderness and warmth of the house.
When the master builds the house, he pays special attention to the symmetrical layout, with a window on the left, a window at the same position on the right, a door on the left, and a door on the right.
Looking down, there is a long flower bed on both sides of the terrace, all planted with bright red azaleas, which are Qin Qin's mother's favorite flowers, Lin Chengshan just said by chance, Qin Qin insisted on asking his father to plant azaleas at home. Seeing a bright flower every day is like seeing a mother's bright smiling face.
At that time, the sun sets, the warm afterglow is sprinkled on the delicate face of the flowers, and the peacock green tiles on the roof of the building reflect each other, close the eyes, as if you can hear the sound of the big beads and small beads falling into the jade plate, the wealth pours down, falls into the big fountain pool in front of the courtyard, which makes people feel refreshed and happy.
Lin Chengshan took Manti into the door together, and suddenly saw Qin Qin with all the servants dressed neatly, standing in two rows, waiting with his hands down, and when he saw them coming, he bowed respectfully and shouted:
"Hello sir! Hello Miss! ”。
What's the matter, Lin Chengshan thought he was dazzled, blinked his red old eyes a few times, and looked at it, wasn't it his daughter Qinqin who was standing at the door!
What kind of trouble is this naughty devil going to make! Manti was overjoyed, she didn't expect to be so warmly welcomed for the first time.
Qin Qin smiled and stepped forward and presented her with a handful of freshly picked azaleas. Lin Chengshan said to his daughter with a smile:
"It's Aunt Yang, Qinqin."
"Hello Aunt Yang."
"Aunt Yang? Go, I know your name is Yang Manti, look at you, an 'eel essence'! ”
Qin Qin scolded secretly in her heart, but Manti was so moved that her mouth was grinning, and tears were about to fall out.
She held the flower to her chest, looked down and smelled it, and suddenly the flower lost its color, screamed, and shook off the flower in her hand as if it was on fire, and one by one the caterpillars with bright green and yellow spots crawled out of the petals.
Lin Chengshan was also frightened, and stepped on the caterpillar on the ground with Manti. It's really crazy, Manti stroked his chest:
"Scared, scared me to death."
Lin Chengshan was about to open his mouth to scold Qin Qin, but Manti smiled, stroked his chest with his slender jade hand, and said softly:
"She's still young, and scaring her if you scold her."
"Will she be scared? She is not afraid of heaven and earth. ”
"She's still a child!"
One of them sang with a red face and the other with a white face, and they both found themselves under the stairs. Qin Qin had already turned his head and ignored them, and walked into the door alone, waved his hand, and asked the servants to enter the house together, and the maids who were waiting inside followed into the house, and there was still a group of male servants holding back their mouths and smiling outside.
"Qinqin, you come back and apologize to Aunt Yang."
"Hey, forget it."
Manti had long heard Lin Chengshan talk about how her daughter was so slippery, and asked her to be careful, and she finally saw it.
She secretly scolded Lin Chengshan in her heart for being a "daughter slave". Little girl! After two hits, you will be obedient, and you are reluctant to fight yourself, so you spoil her. You want her to apologize, so she ignores you. I won't give you a few words of roundness, how can you step down, this daughter has really taught enough.
The two of them walked through a group of grinning servants and walked through the door of the living room.
The three of them sat down together, and the maid served the dishes one by one, and the dishes were very rich. One of them is a large roast chicken, surrounded by a circle of vegetarian dishes, and then a circle of various meat dishes, several cold food platters are dotted on the outermost layer, from above, the table is full of dishes like a blooming peony flower, colorful and pleasing shape.
The maids brought them wine again, poured red wine for Lin Chengshan and Manti, and poured grape juice for Qinqin alone.
Qin Qin sat opposite Manti and looked at her: heavy makeup and glamorous makeup, vulgar and unbearable. Manti is also looking at her: a little girl, uneducated and unbeaten.
Lin Chengshan sat on the top, feeling that the light in their eyes "Zizi" collided, and they could send out lightning, looked up at the wall lamp, and it seemed to be "rumbling" for a long time, which frightened him to shrink his neck, and immediately sat up straight again, pulled his tie, and said loudly to them:
"Open the meal!"
What does this meal taste like? The maid brought a pot of veal, Lin Chengshan motioned for the guests to taste it first, and Qin Qin put up a fork, put it to his mouth, and stared at the meat. Manti understood her mind when she saw it, so she gave her a large piece first, and Qinqin said "thank you" lazily without moving a chopstick.
Manti is not angry, after all, she has not passed the door yet, and she cannot be regarded as a hostess, and it is not easy to teach people. Lin Chengshan ate with relish by himself, chewed the beef, took another sip of red wine, and then ate vegetables.
Manti chewed the beef in small bites, and looked at the house quietly—
Really rich and noble: the duplex living room is high and finely repaired, the pillars are polished smooth and traceless, and the marble emits a faint and cold luster, quietly cultivating the rich atmosphere in the house. The four walls are covered with Western wallpaper, and it is magnificent. The chandelier was brightly lit, and the angels on the wallpaper seemed to come to life.
The living room is covered with a Persian carpet with bright red and gold rims, which is sure to be thick and soft to step on, and it will not be stiff at all. A long staircase winds down, the wrought iron handrails are intricately foreign, and the pots of rhododendrons placed on the steps are like entering a palace.
Looking up the stairs, I saw that the rooms upstairs were lined up, and the arched Western windows seemed to be the ladies lowering their eyes, looking down at the guests in the living room.
Manti imagined the excitement of the family banquet here, with the gentlemen's black and white suits and the ladies' colorful skirts swaying and dancing to romantic music.
I was obviously tired of this kind of life in the dance hall for a long time, why did I yearn for it when I arrived at the Lin Mansion? - It's all vanity.
Manti rolled his gaze, looking back and forth.
A black piano stood firmly in the corner of the living room, covered with a dark red curtain, elegant and noble, and Mandy wanted it to start music immediately.
After everyone finished eating, they sat on the sofa to rest, and Manti proposed to let Qin Qin play a piano song, but Qin Qin refused. Lin Chengshan patted his daughter's hand and coaxed her, obedient. Qin Qin's eyes lit up, and he thought of an eviction order, so he agreed to play a song......